Caused the intelligence community and the United States Government to realize their failures and dramatically reassess their operating procedures. This undertaking included increased communication and Joint operations between different branches of the defense department and the intelligence community, an investigation by Congress into the performance of the intelligence community, creation of government agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, policy changes such as the Intelligence Reform and TerrorismPrevention Act (IRATE), legislative changes such as the U. S.
A. Patriot Act, military practices military practices standardizing collection of SIR, and a declaration of war by the united states Government against all terrorists world-wide that Increases the need for a better functioning intelligence community. The 9/1 1 Commission Report states "September 1 1, 2001 (9/1 1), was a day of unprecedented shock and suffering in the history of the united States. The nation was unprepared. "l This unpreserved directly reflects the functioning of the intelligence community prior to the events of 9/1 1 .Most notably was a lack of communication and integration between the different intelligence agencies.
Employees within the FBI and the CIA purposefully kept intelligence out of the hands of each other to specifically increase the recognition of their respective agencies. 2 Because of this, failures of communication within the Intelligence community were quite common.
